Jammu/IBNS: Poet-broadcaster and Sahitya Akademi winner, Farooq Nazki, passed away in Jammu's Katra at the age of 83 on Tuesday, media reports said.

Nazki is survived by his wife, son and two daughters.

The broadcaster, who worked for Doordarshan and AIR Srinagar, was suffering from various health complications.

He has been facing lung and kidney complications for the past several years.

Nazki served as the director of Doordarshan and erstwhile Radio Kashmir Srinagar (AIR Srinagar) for a period of 1986-1997.

In 1995, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri language literature for his poetry book Naar Hyutun Kanzal Wanas.

The late poet's son-in-law, Haseeb Drabu, a former journalist and a politician, posted on X, "The passing away of a qalander is not to be mourned; his fulfilling life is to be celebrated. For he has left this station after enriching it in many ways.

"A societal loss which is a personal bereavement. RIP Mir Mohammed Farooq Nazki (1940 - 2024)."